MP Game - Pandemonium (noob/int game) - running

[Thufir]

PashaDawg said:
Hey!! Looks like you guys are having a good game, a'cookin'. I enjoyed Thufir's play-by-play.

Thank's Pasha - coming from a master such as yourself, that's quite a complement!

It was indeed a good game - had a great time - but alas, all good things must come to an end. I've gone AI now, I don't know if Aku, Boron, msew and Prinz Megarherz will be carrying on, but any interested parties are free to do so.

Frosted has gone two consecutive stales now, and unless someone objects quite soon, I'll also set him to AI.

[PashaDawg]

Thufir said:
It was indeed a good game - had a great time - but alas, all good things must come to an end. I've gone AI now

Why go AI? Did you end up losing???? Did Lord AKU end up spanking your Dominion?

[Aku]

Long story.

Things happened...Boron and Thufir had a massive battle where both sides used a lot of their forces for one fight. I am not sure if Boron will go AI or not himself.

[Thufir]

Aku said:
where both sides used a lot of their forces for one fight.

wrong answer.

[Thufir]

PashaDawg said:Why go AI? Did you end up losing???? Did Lord AKU end up spanking your Dominion?

For reasons I will not detail, the game ceased to be fun. But the game was quite a lot of fun, all the way up to the end - and for that I thank everyone involved.

[Aku]

Well anyway Thufir, I know Boron had most of his forces there and was told you had an army of over 500 demon type troops so I would consider that "a lot." You do not have thousands of troops running around so I would consider the army that fought Boron a lot of your forces. I guess I am mistaken since you said I was wrong so I have to assume that was one of your small armies but the army graphs showed otherwise or maybe I am wrong on that also and I need someone to teach me to read a graph now.

[Aku]

Anyway in other game news. A new turn is up.

Abysia is AI. Arco is AI. I don't recall Frosted Flake staling but Thufir is the game manager and has probably been keeping tabs on it.

I have counter attacked Ryleh, who invaded me Last turn, and his province count has gone down to the small amount Pangaea has in a single round. Ryleh's main army has defeated 450 of my undead at some losses but still has the vital troops of his army. Pangaea has defended against one of my storming attempts on his capital.

AI Arco is invading Mictlan.

AI Abysia has attacked me with 300 vampires and my dominion just pushed into that province. I am attacking the vamp army with a flames from the sky, followed by about 10 ghost riders, followed by an attack of one of my armies lead by my prophet.

[PrinzMegaherz]

Bad times for the nation of pangaea.
With Abysia going AI this means no more backup in the fight against ermor.

Looks like we have to take the same stance as Arco, definding the capitol no matter what.

Maybe those 4 Bane Lords I charmed Last turn will help me

[Thufir]

Aku said:
Well anyway Thufir, I know Boron had most of his forces there and was told you had an army of over 500 demon type troops so I would consider that "a lot." You do not have thousands of troops running around so I would consider the army that fought Boron a lot of your forces. I guess I am mistaken since you said I was wrong so I have to assume that was one of your small armies but the army graphs showed otherwise or maybe I am wrong on that also and I need someone to teach me to read a graph now.

Why provoke me, Aku? You are a skilled player, and you know how to read graphs. And you know full well how that they don't tell the whole story. In this case, the graph mostly reflected my heavy loss of imps. I am sure that you have heard from Boron that in the second turn after joining you, I took the Mictlan capital, and broke the backbone of Mictlan's fighting forces. Mictlan lost her Vampire Queen, all SCs but two unequipped Ice Devils, and was left with maybe 100 - 200 Devils.

What perhaps you have not heard is that I did this with my secondary army. The primary army which dusted so many of your undead with near zero losses, was still one turn away from the fight. I did, however, take significant losses in this fight, I lost 2 Heliophagii and a number of Devils and Storm Demons. I lost no Demon Lords, and not the Arch Devil or Air Queen and none of the casters.

I will work on some screen grabs for this battle, although it was not as colorful as the Last one I did, and it's kind of painful to replay (even on fast forward, it goes slow, due to so many units - esp. casters). What was interesting about this one is how effective hoards of mechanical men can be. Boron had something like 600 mechanical men. Their lightning immunity made my Storm Demon Army rather more irrelevant than I would've cared. Had I given Boron just a few more turns to prepare, this could've easily become a devestating force! For my part, I used just about every non-fire global spell in the book! I did have a fire or two caster there, but I limited myself to Flame Storm, and did not use any of the battlefield spells, as I did not want to damage my Storm Demons.

[Thufir]

It turns out my abysia.trn file got deleted when I set Arco to AI. Does anyone know if old .trn files are saved on the server (either by Dom II hosting sware, or via code running on Esben's server)?